This hits sampler users harder than most other musicians as most samplers are very much a product of their computing times.

I have a SCSI Zip drive for my 20 year old Ensoniq ASR-10 and hope to source a spare Zip drive in case it dies. Meanwhile, computing hardware that can read the old Ensoniq floppies is becoming harder to find (USB floppies can't do it) and Ensoniq enthusiasts are also starting to report disks that are unreadable as the magnetic field fades too far.

Fortunately the Ensoniq hardware also supports CD-ROMs and they are a lot more long lasting.

Wade.